Tag: social

For a quite long time there is a number of social services/sites out there. myspace, facebook, google+, twitter and probably hundreds of others.

I don't have anything against them, but one thing bugs me, and perhaps someone reading this could help me: what is the point of these sites? I mean literally, let's assume you are talking with an alien from other galaxy, and you want to explain why people are using these sites. I am that alien. Tested twitter and google+, and can't find any use in my life for them. But millions of other people do. Which means that (most likely) I'm missing out on something. “Being social" is terribly vague. Can anyone of you tell me what is possible (or significantly easier) that wasn't possible before (or was much harder) thanks to these services?

I am very serious about it – I doubt that it will turn me into user, but at the very least I want to understand what drives people to use it.